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A month-long patent infringement trial in August 2006 between Matsushita Electric Industrial and Samsung Electronics had the makings of a painfully complex ordeal for jury and judge: a slog through brain-numbing minutiae of computer circuitry. To make the trial as engaging to jurors as possible, Samsung's defense team decided to use water to tell its story. It arranged fabrication of a 15-gallon, clear plastic water tank -- dubbed "AquaChin" -- to demonstrate how Samsung's circuits work.